- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- DallasTexasUSA
- Job type
- Product
- Posted
- Jun 15, 2026
- Salary
- $140,000–$210,000 a year
Senior Program Manager (R4932)
Job description
The Senior Program Manager will lead the execution and growth of Navy Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) programs. This role serves as the primary interface between US Navy stakeholders, business development, engineering, operations, and executive leadership to identify opportunities, shape task orders, and successfully deliver mission-critical capabilities to operational customers.
The candidate will possess deep US Navy experience, understand how requirements transition into funded task orders, and will have a proven track record of success leading complex defense programs from opportunity identification through execution.
Job responsibilities
- Deliver proven, exceptional, and reliable performance in support of Navy missions through flawless program management and leadership
- Effectively collaborate and lead relevant stakeholders to successfully deliver programs early, under budget, and with exceptional technical performance
- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with Navy operational, acquisition, and technical stakeholders. Serve as the primary customer-facing lead for assigned programs
- Complete critical path analyses including the evaluation of potential means to accelerate the pace or mitigate identified risks
- Translate evolving customer requirements into executable plans across engineering, operations, logistics, and sustainment teams
- Astutely balance and rebalance shifting customer priories related to cost, schedule, and technical parameters of programs
- Drive program execution across multiple concurrent task orders and customer organizations.
- Lead staffing plans, execution strategies, risk assessments, and program activities
Job requirements
- 8+ years of Program Management experience supporting Department of Defense programs.
- Demonstrated successful experience running advanced programs consisting of multiple interrelated projects, in a self-directed manner
- Direct experience supporting Navy operational, acquisition, ISR, aviation, maritime, or intelligence communities
- Proven experience managing customer-facing defense programs with responsibility for cost, schedule, and performance
- Experience leading cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, logistics, and business functions
- Demonstrated experience developing, shaping, capturing, or executing government contracts and task orders
- Strong business and financial acumen with experience managing complex program financials
- Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills
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